Machine for perforating cigarette-paper.



0. A. DRUGKLIEB.

MACHINE FOR PERFORATING CIGARETTE PAPER.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 11, 1909.

Patented Nov. 7, 1911.

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APPLIOATION FILED 11017.11, 1909.

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APPLICATION FILED NOV. 11, 1909. 1,007,852. Patented Nov. 7, 1911.

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MACHINE FOR PERFORATING CIGARETTE PAPER.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES A. DRUCKLIEB, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

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eration of the machine so that when each cigarette emerges from the machine it will be properly perforated. This object is accomplished by my invention one embodiment of which is hereinafter set forth.

For a more complete description of my invention, reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improvement and a portion of the machine to which it is attached. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the lower portion of the perforating mechanism. Fig. 8 is a sectional view of a part of the perforating mechanism. Fig. 1

is a plan view of my improvement applied to a machine. Fig. 5 is a transverse section of my improved mechanism. Fig. 6 is a front elevation of an adjustable crank pin and the parts to which it is attached. Fig. 7 is a sectional view taken on the line 77 of Fig. 6, looking in the direction of the arrows. Fig. 8 is a front elevation of my improved device and a portion of the machine to which it is attached. Figs. 9 and 10 are a front elevation and a longitudinal section respectively of the punch mechanism, other parts of my improved device being broken away. Fig. 11 shows an end elevation of my improved device. Fig. 12 shows a rear elevation of the same. Fig. 13 is a perspective view of a stripper plate.

Throughout the various views of the drawings similar reference characters designate similar parts.

My improvement 1 is applied to a cigarette making machine of the continuously moving tube type. Only a part of the machine is shown. The bed 2 of this machine carries suitable bearings 8 in which is ournaled the main shaft 4 in the conventional manner. This main shaft 4 carries a beveled Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 11, 1909.

Patented Nov. 7, 1911.

Serial No. 527,365.

gear 5 which meshes with a second beveled gear 6 on a vertical shaft 7 suitably journaled in bearings 8 secured to the bed 2 of the machine. The upper end of the shaft is provided with a beveled gear 9 that meshes with a larger gear 10 on a horizontally disposed shaft 11 that is journaled in a suitable bearing 12 and carries at its other end a slotted disk 13 which has a slot lt running across the same. At each end of the slot 14 are suitable set screws 15 and the slot 14 isso formed that its opposite sides flare slightly from the front toward the rear of the machine. The reason for this will appear below. The wall 16' of the slot 1 1 is made adjustable and held in place by screws 17 and adjusted by'a set screw 18. The slot 14: does not extend through the disk 13 but only partially through the same as shown in Fig. 7. The function of the screw 18 is to adjust the wall 16 firmly against a slide 19 which is provided at one end with a crank pin 20. The slide 19 is adjusted in the slot 14 by means of the screws 15 and is finally clamped in its proper position by the wall 16 which is held by the screws 17 and a screw 18. The peculiar mounting of the pin 20 which has been described above permits this pin to be adjusted bothfor wear and for the length of the cigarettes which are made from the tube.

The bed 2 carries a sliding carriage 21 which runs longitudinally of the machine. This carriage 21 has a vertically disposed wall to which are secured gibs 22 which are placed on either side of the fixed guides 23 which is preferably formed integral with the bearing 12 and connected therewith by means of suitable webs 2 1 which webs are on the opposite sides of the disk 13. The guides 23 are sufficiently separated as shown in Fig. 4 so as not to interfere with the crank pin 20 inany way. The gibs 22 are secured to the carriage 21 by means of suitable screws 25 or in any other desired manner. These guides 22 are separate and provided with peculiarly converging ends so as to form suitable guides for the slide 26 which runs vertically and performs a function that will be described below. The carriage 21 also has the horizontally disposed standards or lugs 27 which extend from its vertically disposed wall and these lugs are united near their outer ends by means of a suitable rod 28' which is fixed in position by means of suitable set screws 29. The rod 28 carries a bell crank lever 30 which is pivotedly mount-ed thereon. The longer arm of the bell crank lever 30 is provided with a cam roller 31 mounted in the conventional manner and this roller 31 takes in a cam groove 32 in the slide 26. This cam groove 32 turns at an angle of about 45 degrees toward the rear of the machine as shown in Fig. 5 near its lower end so that the longer arm of the bell-crank lever 30 is correspondingly shifted when the slide 26 is near the upper limit of its movement and this arm of the bell-crank lever 30 is forward throughout the greater portion of the movement of the slide 26. While in this position this arm has no movement whatever.

It is obvious that the vertical wall of the slide 21 is suitably recessed so as not to interfere with the vertical movement of the slide 26. The lower arm 33 of the bellc-rank lever 30 is horizontally disposed or nearly so and is shorter than the other arm and is provided at its free end with a pin 34 that mounted in the lugs 35 which extend downwardly from the platen 36 on which is mounted the plate 37 that carries the pins 38 which do the punching in conjunction with a perforated plate 39 on the lower surface of a plate 40 which is secured E by suitable brackets 41 to the vertically disposed wall of the carriage 21 by means of suitable cap screws 42. The brackets 41 are also provided with suitable guides 43 be-: tween which run the arms 44 that extend upwardly from the rear edge of the platen 36 and guide the same. The plate 3 also I carries a suitablestripper plate 45 which is elastically separated from the plate 37 and j surrounds the pins 38 and extends from the j top of the same as shown in Fig. 3 so that The tongue 48 is provided with suitable perforations 49 that take over pins 50 that rise from the plate 37 and also extend through} the plate 39 so as to insure a proper alinement between this plate and the pins 38.

From the foregoing the operation of my} improved machine will be readily under-} stood. Power is applied to the shaft 4 means of the pulley 51 or in any other suitable manner and this shaft drives the bevel? gear 5 which in turn drives the bevel gear 6 on the shaft 7. This shaft 7 drives the.

pin 20 fixed therein. The pin 20 gives the carriage 21 a horizontal movement and simultaneously, the slide 26 a vertical movement. The velocity of the slide 21 varies but the average is that of the paper ribbon 46 which is fed through the machine so that when the ribbon is perforated it is not stretched nor retarded to any substantial extent. The vertical movement of the slide 26 acts through the bell-crank lever 30 to raise and lower the punches 38 through the stripper plate 45 and ribbon 46 on the forward movement of the carriage 21 and to withdraw the same on the rearward movement. The movement of the slides 21 and 26 are so timed that the perforations will be made while the movement of the carriage is substantially the same as that of the ribbon 46 and the punches will be withdrawn from this ribbon, by the mechanism described, before there is any substantial difference of movement between the carriage 21 and the ribbon 46 so that in no event will the ribbon be torn.

While I have shown and described one embodiment of my invention it is obvious that it is not restricted thereto but may be embodied in various forms all of which come within the scope of the annexed claims.

I claim 1. In a machine of the class described, a bed, ribbon carrying mechanism mounted thereon, a carriage, means for reciprocating said carriage, a perforated plate carried by said carriage, a platen with projecting pins under said perforated plate and means for reciprocating said platen so that it will perforate a ribbon when moving in the direction of the ribbon and withdrawn from said ribbon prior to the movement of the carriage in the opposite direction from the movement of the ribbon andastripper plate.

2. A machine of the class described, a bed, ribbon carrying means supported by said bed, a carriage having areeiprocating movement, a perforated plate movable with said carriage, a reciprocating punch carried by said carriage, means for cooperation with the perforations of said plate, and a stripper plate for cooperation with said punch.

3. In a machine of the class described, a bed a reciprocating carriage carried by said bed, means for moving said carriage, a perforated plate carried by said carriage, guides adjacent to said plate, a reciprocating platen below said perforated plate, and

means for moving the same, pins on said platen adapted to enter said perforations in said plate, and a stripper plate mounted on said pins.

4. In a machine of the class described, a bed, a reciprocating carriage carried by said bed, means for moving said carriage, a perforated plate carried by said carriage, guides adjacent to said plate, a reciprocating platen adjacent said perforated plate,

and means for moving the same, pins on said platen adapted to enter said perforations in said plate, and a stripper plate mounted on said pins.

5. In a machine of the class described, a bed, a reciprocating carriage thereon, means for moving said carriage, a perforated plate, a reciprocating platen, means for moving the same, means on the platen adapted for cooperation With said perforated plate, and a stripper plate carried by said means.

Signed at the city of New York, county of New York, in the State of New York this 3rd day of November 1909.

CHARLES A. DRUGKLIEB.

Witnesses:

PAUL A. DRUoKLmB, GUSTAVE I. ARoNoW.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

